Example sentences of "[conj] they have been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean to our children , although they 've been away from Butchwana for quite a few years now it 's still home |
| 2 | The couple live apart and although they have been together for some time , you sense Clint 's fingers have been burned by his previous bad experiences . |
| 3 | How could she confess that they 'd been right about Ryan ? |
| 4 | No matter what Bob says or Harry or any other member of the Conservative group , and I accept that they 've always been consistent on it the same as the Labour group has always been consistently against the merger I accept that they 've been consistently in favour of a total merger . |
| 5 | Jack says practically that there is n't a beast because they 've not seen it and they 've been everywhere on the island . |
| 6 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
| 7 | But it was only as a last resort in 1120 that the community committed itself to , and based its case upon , the expedient of introducing into existing documents the necessary phrases , which — if they had been there in the days of Lanfranc or Anselm — would have given their case a firm basis in papal documents . |
| 8 | You can ask them for a sick note from their doctor , but only if they have been away for more than seven days . |
| 9 | Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years . |
| 10 | The most difficult part of getting out a galvanised hot water tank is likely to be disconnecting the pipes leading to and from the boiler particularly if they have been there for some time . |
| 11 | If they have been together for a whole day or days in conference or retreat then there is a dynamic already present . |
| 12 | Mhm cos they 've been there for ages have n't they Mary do n't you think ? |
| 13 | Disorientated by the smothering blackness surrounding them , she herself had completely lost her sense of direction — until they had been midway along the passage . |
| 14 | Or if members of a group are not familiar with each other , no mutual aid may occur until they have been together for some time . |
| 15 | But they 've been there for twenty years on that spot . |
| 16 | In terms of erm , return to work , er , we also er have been very good , I think , in the sense that we now offer the twenty-five per cent bonus er , after pregnancy , do n't get me wrong on that , er , what happens is , people are actually recompensed , given back the money which they 've sacrificed because they 've been away from work for six months , and they get is back over the next two years . |
| 17 | There can be reasons why people make a claim for asylum after they have been here for some time and we consider all cases properly . |
| 18 | She was sitting on the opposite side of the grate and Louise Carter thought fleetingly how proud Nora had always been of her daughter even when they had been dramatically at loggerheads and how pleased she would be if she could see her now , in her elegant black dress and silver jewellery . |
| 19 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 20 | The Lords were more diehard , as they had been ever since 1911 , but unless their powers were restored they would denounce the government in vain . |
| 21 | He looked long and searchingly at the Banks of Knamber that tonight were as they had been then before the moon rose , grey and pale as a sky dotted with tiny black clouds . |
| 22 | See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ? |